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Death is one of the few experiences that unites every human life, yet it remains deeply personal and profoundly mysterious. Across cultures, generations, and beliefs, writers, philosophers, and artists have tried to capture its meaning in words. The following quotes explore death from many angles—grief and acceptance, fear and peace, endings and new beginnings.   ◀ Back
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But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body.
- Gayle Forman
Where She Went
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Dare my guilty heart admit the horrible acknowledgement that I love you still?
- Charlotte Dacre
Zofloya
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What matters most, is not how my end happens, or if it happens now. What I care about in this instant, is that she knows how much I love her—that I lived long enough to have her love me back.
- Emm Cole
Keeping Merminia
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Destiny, if I could sit across the porch from God, I'd thank Him for Lending me you.....
- Flavia Weedn
Across the Porch from God: Reflections of Gratitude
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We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.
- Stephen King
Coffey on the Mile
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Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert agent, professions that require a great deal of bravery and risk and putting oneself in grave danger in order to complete the mission. Even though I did not become all those things, and unless my predisposition, in its youngest years, already had me leaning towards them, the interest that was there still shaped my philosophies. To this day I honor risk and sacrifice for the good of others - my views on life and love are heavily influenced by this.
- Criss Jami
Healology
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I'm not scared of death, I just don't want to seek it out.
- Tommy Higgins
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If you have to go, you know I will go with you." We slept.
- Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
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Then all the sharp intricate peaks on the monitor smoothed out to clean straight lines and my father made a terrible growling sound, but even without any of that I would have known, because the air around us had split open and whirled and re-formed itself and there was one less person in the room.
- Tana French
The Witch Elm
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Death is inevitable passion is eternal
- Allison van Diepen
Raven
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
- Marcel Proust
The Captive / The Fugitive
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Who hasn't wanted to die at one time or another?
- Ryū Murakami
Piercing
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She surveyed the carnage behind him. "Did you have fun?"
He showed her his teeth. "Yes.
- Ilona Andrews
Bayou Moon
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A fool I was to sleep at noon,
And wake when night is chilly
Beneath the comfortless cold moon;
A fool to pluck my rose too soon,
A fool to snap my lily.

My garden-plot I have not kept;
Faded and all-forsaken,
I weep as I have never wept:
Oh it was summer when I slept,
It's winter now I waken.

Talk what you please of future spring
And sun-warm'd sweet to-orrow:
Stripp'd bare of hope and everything,
No more to laugh, no more to sing,
I sit alone with sorrow.
- Christina Rossetti
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Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.
- E.M. Forster
Aspects of the Novel
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People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.
- Holly Black
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
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And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others, keep putting one foot before the other, left and right, left and right, so that walking becomes a habit, just like breathing. Ina n out, left and right.
- Thrity Umrigar
The Space Between Us
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During the last few years of her life Mrs. Willowes grew continually more skilled in evading responsibilities, and her death seemed but the final perfected expression of this skill. It was as if she had said, yawning a delicate cat’s yawn, “I think I will go to my grave now,” and had left the room.
- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Lolly Willowes
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Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.
- Sheri S. Tepper
The Gate to Women's Country
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When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.
- Ruth Reichl
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
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Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume."
On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be able to collect enough of my scattered atoms to bury. You going to cover my funeral expenses, son?"
Splendidly. Banners, dancing girls, and enough beer to float your coffin to Valhalla."
- Miles coaxing Ky Tung to agree to an almost suicidal mission
- Lois McMaster Bujold
The Vor Game
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I'd heard that if you saw a Reaper, you saw what you expected to see, what you thought the agents of Death would look like. Personally, I wanted to see little, fuzzy pink bunnies, but apparently my subconscious visualized tall, scary, and skeletal. My subconscious and I needed to have a long talk.
- Lisa Shearin
The Trouble with Demons
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There are women whose love only ends with death.
- Georges Rodenbach
The Bells of Bruges
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The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.
- Dean Koontz
Fear Nothing
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But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body.
- Gayle Forman
Where She Went
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dare my guilty heart admit the horrible acknowledgement that I love you still?
- Charlotte Dacre
Zofloya
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What matters most, is not how my end happens, or if it happens now. What I care about in this instant, is that she knows how much I love her—that I lived long enough to have her love me back.
- Emm Cole
Keeping Merminia
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Destiny, if I could sit across the porch from God, I'd thank Him for Lending me you.....
- Flavia Weedn
Across the Porch from God: Reflections of Gratitude
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.
- Stephen King
Coffey on the Mile
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert agent, professions that require a great deal of bravery and risk and putting oneself in grave danger in order to complete the mission. Even though I did not become all those things, and unless my predisposition, in its youngest years, already had me leaning towards them, the interest that was there still shaped my philosophies. To this day I honor risk and sacrifice for the good of others - my views on life and love are heavily influenced by this.
- Criss Jami
Healology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm not scared of death, I just don't want to seek it out.
- Tommy Higgins
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you have to go, you know I will go with you." We slept.
- Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Then all the sharp intricate peaks on the monitor smoothed out to clean straight lines and my father made a terrible growling sound, but even without any of that I would have known, because the air around us had split open and whirled and re-formed itself and there was one less person in the room.
- Tana French
The Witch Elm
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is inevitable passion is eternal
- Allison van Diepen
Raven
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
- Marcel Proust
The Captive / The Fugitive
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Who hasn't wanted to die at one time or another?
- Ryū Murakami
Piercing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She surveyed the carnage behind him. "Did you have fun?"
He showed her his teeth. "Yes.
- Ilona Andrews
Bayou Moon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A fool I was to sleep at noon,
And wake when night is chilly
Beneath the comfortless cold moon;
A fool to pluck my rose too soon,
A fool to snap my lily.

My garden-plot I have not kept;
Faded and all-forsaken,
I weep as I have never wept:
Oh it was summer when I slept,
It's winter now I waken.

Talk what you please of future spring
And sun-warm'd sweet to-orrow:
Stripp'd bare of hope and everything,
No more to laugh, no more to sing,
I sit alone with sorrow.
- Christina Rossetti
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.
- E.M. Forster
Aspects of the Novel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.
- Holly Black
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others, keep putting one foot before the other, left and right, left and right, so that walking becomes a habit, just like breathing. Ina n out, left and right.
- Thrity Umrigar
The Space Between Us
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
During the last few years of her life Mrs. Willowes grew continually more skilled in evading responsibilities, and her death seemed but the final perfected expression of this skill. It was as if she had said, yawning a delicate cat’s yawn, “I think I will go to my grave now,” and had left the room.
- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Lolly Willowes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.
- Sheri S. Tepper
The Gate to Women's Country
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.
- Ruth Reichl
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume."
On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be able to collect enough of my scattered atoms to bury. You going to cover my funeral expenses, son?"
Splendidly. Banners, dancing girls, and enough beer to float your coffin to Valhalla."
- Miles coaxing Ky Tung to agree to an almost suicidal mission
- Lois McMaster Bujold
The Vor Game
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'd heard that if you saw a Reaper, you saw what you expected to see, what you thought the agents of Death would look like. Personally, I wanted to see little, fuzzy pink bunnies, but apparently my subconscious visualized tall, scary, and skeletal. My subconscious and I needed to have a long talk.
- Lisa Shearin
The Trouble with Demons
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are women whose love only ends with death.
- Georges Rodenbach
The Bells of Bruges
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.
- Dean Koontz
Fear Nothing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body.
- Gayle Forman
Where She Went
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dare my guilty heart admit the horrible acknowledgement that I love you still?
- Charlotte Dacre
Zofloya
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What matters most, is not how my end happens, or if it happens now. What I care about in this instant, is that she knows how much I love her—that I lived long enough to have her love me back.
- Emm Cole
Keeping Merminia
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Destiny, if I could sit across the porch from God, I'd thank Him for Lending me you.....
- Flavia Weedn
Across the Porch from God: Reflections of Gratitude
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.
- Stephen King
Coffey on the Mile
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert agent, professions that require a great deal of bravery and risk and putting oneself in grave danger in order to complete the mission. Even though I did not become all those things, and unless my predisposition, in its youngest years, already had me leaning towards them, the interest that was there still shaped my philosophies. To this day I honor risk and sacrifice for the good of others - my views on life and love are heavily influenced by this.
- Criss Jami
Healology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm not scared of death, I just don't want to seek it out.
- Tommy Higgins
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you have to go, you know I will go with you." We slept.
- Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Then all the sharp intricate peaks on the monitor smoothed out to clean straight lines and my father made a terrible growling sound, but even without any of that I would have known, because the air around us had split open and whirled and re-formed itself and there was one less person in the room.
- Tana French
The Witch Elm
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is inevitable passion is eternal
- Allison van Diepen
Raven
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
- Marcel Proust
The Captive / The Fugitive
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Who hasn't wanted to die at one time or another?
- Ryū Murakami
Piercing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She surveyed the carnage behind him. "Did you have fun?"
He showed her his teeth. "Yes.
- Ilona Andrews
Bayou Moon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A fool I was to sleep at noon,
And wake when night is chilly
Beneath the comfortless cold moon;
A fool to pluck my rose too soon,
A fool to snap my lily.

My garden-plot I have not kept;
Faded and all-forsaken,
I weep as I have never wept:
Oh it was summer when I slept,
It's winter now I waken.

Talk what you please of future spring
And sun-warm'd sweet to-orrow:
Stripp'd bare of hope and everything,
No more to laugh, no more to sing,
I sit alone with sorrow.
- Christina Rossetti
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.
- E.M. Forster
Aspects of the Novel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.
- Holly Black
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others, keep putting one foot before the other, left and right, left and right, so that walking becomes a habit, just like breathing. Ina n out, left and right.
- Thrity Umrigar
The Space Between Us
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
During the last few years of her life Mrs. Willowes grew continually more skilled in evading responsibilities, and her death seemed but the final perfected expression of this skill. It was as if she had said, yawning a delicate cat’s yawn, “I think I will go to my grave now,” and had left the room.
- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Lolly Willowes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.
- Sheri S. Tepper
The Gate to Women's Country
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.
- Ruth Reichl
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume."
On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be able to collect enough of my scattered atoms to bury. You going to cover my funeral expenses, son?"
Splendidly. Banners, dancing girls, and enough beer to float your coffin to Valhalla."
- Miles coaxing Ky Tung to agree to an almost suicidal mission
- Lois McMaster Bujold
The Vor Game
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'd heard that if you saw a Reaper, you saw what you expected to see, what you thought the agents of Death would look like. Personally, I wanted to see little, fuzzy pink bunnies, but apparently my subconscious visualized tall, scary, and skeletal. My subconscious and I needed to have a long talk.
- Lisa Shearin
The Trouble with Demons
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are women whose love only ends with death.
- Georges Rodenbach
The Bells of Bruges
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.
- Dean Koontz
Fear Nothing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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